On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:47:09 +0200 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ben Hutchings schrieb: > >> Wasting time and bandwidth (fetching linux-headers etc)? Great... > > > > Building obscure modules for every kernel flavour on Debian's own > > auto-builders is also a waste, especially when just one broken module > > breaks the whole conglomeration package. > > It is a big difference if our auto-builders build them e.g. 12 times for > every architecture or if they have to be built on every end-consumer PC, > which are e.g. one million pcs. All those senseless lost of energy and > performance..
it takes about 3 seconds to build the fglrx module (on a modern machine), so i don't see this as too much of a problem. to put things in perspective, it actually takes longer for apt to read its package lists than to build the fglrx module, which is done a lot more often (i.e. every time the user invokes "apt-get update") than building the module. > It is also not a good idea to switch to dkms, now where nothing is > decided or it may end like with ia32-apt-get with many wasted developer > ressources. it may take some effort and learning on our part, but this is very doable. as long as dkms isn't going away, then the transition will not be a wasted effort. mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
